Two Bottles, Two Halves of a Day: How to Split a Wardrobe Between Working Hours and Evenings

Two Bottles, Two Halves of a Day: How to Split a Wardrobe Between Working Hours and Evenings

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★ ★ Two halves of a day, two bottles, and one habit - Adaa and Nawaab, with one shared published material between themSOSA Adaa 3ml ₹379 · SOSA Nawaab 3ml ₹399 - the widest contrast and the cheapest pair in the range, which is a coincidence I did not arrangeNine pages sit under this one, including two that recommend buying nothing at all
The short version — five things worth checking before a second bottle
For the reader who wants a working-hours bottle and an evening bottle, and wants the second one to be a different thing rather than a louder copy
  • 1 Adaa and Nawaab share one published material, white musk. That is the widest contrast in the four-attar range, and it is also the cheapest pair in it - ₹379 and ₹399 at the 3ml, quoted separately because a sum is not a product.
  • 2 Two bottles and a dose habit beat three bottles. One dab on one wrist and two dabs across wrists and the base of the throat are two genuinely different wearings of the same composition, which is why a day-and-evening wardrobe is two bottles and four settings.
  • 3 Adaa is the only one of the four with no oudh anywhere in its pyramid, and the only one that closes dry - white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. That is why the daytime half of this family's answer is the same bottle on eight of its ten pages.
  • 4 Three of the four attars name sandalwood and three name oudh, and all four sit on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier. So a pair that keeps the woods apart is a narrower request than a four-bottle range suggests, and only pairs containing Adaa manage it.
  • 5 Several readers of this family should buy nothing. If the genuinely dressed evenings come to two or three a year, the second bottle is worn twice and stored for the rest, and the honest recommendation is one bottle in the larger size.
★ See SOSA Adaa - the working-hours half ₹379 Send Sonal your week ₹0
★ The canonical pair for a day and an evening, and the two bottles that take the evening slot instead
SOSA Adaa AttarSOSA Adaa Attar · 3ml ₹379Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - no oudh, no amber, no vanilla, and the only dry close in the rangeView Adaa →SOSA Nawaab AttarSOSA Nawaab Attar · 3ml ₹399White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - the evening half of this family's answer, and the far end of the range from the bottle beside itView Nawaab →SOSA Ameeri AttarSOSA Ameeri Attar · 3ml ₹385Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk - the evening half when the occasion is a dinner rather than a receptionView Ameeri →
✓ Every overlap figure under this hub is counted off the published note pyramids rather than asserted ✓ Two of the nine pages under this one end in a recommendation of ₹0, and both are linked here ✓ The only performance figure quoted anywhere here is the published 6-8 hours on skin

Founder Diaries · Fragrance Wardrobes · What to Buy Next
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles 24 min read Updated October 2026
A day has two halves, not three slots, and the pair that splits it in my range is Adaa and Nawaab - one shared published material between them, white musk, and nothing else. That is the whole of this family's answer and everything under this page is a variation on it: what to do if you already own a vetiver, what to do if your evenings are dinners rather than receptions, what to do if your office has a view on the subject, and what to do if the honest answer turns out to be one bottle. Before any of it, the free part: one dab and two dabs are two different wearings of the same composition, and a reader who has never deliberately tried the smaller one is not yet short of a bottle.
Quick answers — read this first
What are the best two attars for a daytime and evening split? Adaa at 3ml ₹379 for the working hours and Nawaab at 3ml ₹399 for the evenings. On their published pyramids those two share white musk and nothing else, which is the widest contrast the SOSA range contains. Adaa closes dry on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood with no oudh in it; Nawaab closes on amber, leather and white musk under oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf.

Can one attar cover both halves of a day? Often, and for a reader who rarely dresses up it is the better buy. One dab inside one wrist is a working day; two dabs across both wrists and the base of the throat, applied twenty minutes before leaving, is the same bottle on an evening. Adaa at 6ml ₹669 is the one I would choose for that job, and the page that argues it properly recommends ₹0 for the second bottle.

Which pairs should I avoid for a day-and-evening wardrobe? Any pair drawn from Ameeri, Mastani and Nawaab, because all three are warm and all three name sandalwood and oudh - and Ameeri with Nawaab is the heaviest overlap in the range, with saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber and white musk in common. A pair of those gives you two evenings and no daytime bottle.
The short answer
Short answer: Two bottles: Adaa 3ml at ₹379 for working hours and Nawaab 3ml at ₹399 for the evenings. One shared published material between them. Before buying the second, calibrate the first - one dab for a day and two for an evening is a real change in how a composition behaves, and it is free. If the dressed evenings come to two or three a year, buy one bottle in the 6ml instead.
The pick: Adaa 3ml ₹379 plus Nawaab 3ml ₹399. For a dinner rather than a reception, Ameeri at ₹385 takes the evening slot; for sweetness, Mastani at ₹389.
Next step: start with the two-bottle answer stated in full, then the woody-base version if you want it argued on materials. The page on what actually makes an attar a daytime one declines the premise, and the quiet-wearer page recommends nothing at all. Or send me your week and I will tell you which of the nine pages under this one is yours.
In this guide
Straight answer
How should I split a fragrance wardrobe between working hours and evenings without buying two bottles that turn out to be versions of each other?
Two bottles, Adaa at ₹379 and Nawaab at ₹399, and a dose habit that makes them four settings instead of two. But fix the dose first, because a third of the readers who arrive at this question do not need the second bottle at all. First, why two halves rather than three slots. The question usually arrives as three occasions: office, casual, special. Those are three social categories and two fragrance problems. Office and casual are the same problem at different volumes - a quiet composition applied in different amounts - and the special occasion is the genuinely separate one, because it is the only setting where you may actively want weight. So the real structure of a day is a working half and a dressed half, and a wardrobe for it is two bottles and a hand that knows what it is doing. Second, the pair, and why it is decided by a count rather than a preference. Take two published pyramids, group the materials the way a nose groups them rather than the way a label does, count the shared ones against the total across both, and divide. Adaa against Nawaab comes out at the bottom of my range: white musk in common, and nothing else. Adaa is Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, closing dry on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, with no oudh anywhere in it. Nawaab is white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf over amber, leather and white musk. No shared wood in the pyramids, no shared oudh, no shared amber, no shared sweetness. One material, and it is the quietest thing in both bases. Third, why that pair is also the right pair for the job. It would be a tidy coincidence if the widest-contrast pair in a range happened to be useless for a day-and-evening split, and it is not. Adaa is the lightest composition I make and the only one whose close has no sugar in it, which is what lets a single small dab of it carry a working day in a room you share. Nawaab is the heaviest and the only one with no flower in it, which is what lets it hold up in a room where several hundred other decisions are already competing. The pair the arithmetic puts furthest apart is the pair the day puts furthest apart, and that is the finding this family rests on. Fourth, the awkward part: it is also the cheapest pair in the range. Adaa is my least expensive attar and Nawaab is the dearest of the four by sixteen rupees at the 3ml, and between them they are the widest gap I have. I did not design that and I would commercially prefer the answer to involve the set rather than two single bottles. The count does not care what I would prefer. Fifth, the pairs I would talk you out of. Ameeri with Nawaab, which carry saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber and white musk in common - the heaviest overlap here, two warm orientals that both open on saffron, and a purchase that gives you the same evening twice. Ameeri with Mastani, which overlap on bergamot, pink pepper, rose, sandalwood and oudh; Mastani is the sweeter of those two and that is a real difference and a narrow one. And any pair of the three warm bottles at all, because none of them is a daytime bottle whatever the dose. Sixth, the dose dial, which is the part of this answer that costs nothing. An oil attar has a wand rather than an atomiser, which means the dose is yours to set and to repeat exactly. One dab inside one wrist is a desk. Two dabs, both wrists and the base of the throat, twenty minutes before you leave, is an evening. So two bottles give you four usable settings, and one bottle gives you two - which is why a reader with three dressed evenings a year should buy one bottle in the 6ml rather than two in the 3ml. The one thing the dial cannot do is change what a composition is made of: more of a dry musk-and-cedarwood bottle is louder, not heavier, and if a long evening in a warm room genuinely wants amber and oud underneath, that is the real argument for the second purchase. And seventh, where my recommendation stops. If your workplace has its own fragrance policy, the policy decides your weekday bottle and nothing here overrules it. A good deal of what readers mean by "suitable for the office" is about a shared room rather than about a pyramid, and that argument belongs to another guide of ours rather than to this one. What I can give you is what is in each bottle, what the bases do at hour three, and an honest count of how much of the second bottle is already in the first.

The canonical pair, and why it is the cheapest one in the range

Adaa and Nawaab is the answer on eight of the nine pages under this one, and where it is not the answer the reason is always a fact about the reader rather than about the bottles: a vetiver already on the shelf, an office with a rule, a year with three dressed evenings in it. That consistency is worth explaining rather than repeating, because a family of pages that gives the same answer ten times is either very confident or very lazy.

The explanation is that my range has one asymmetric member. Three of the four attars are warm: they name sandalwood, they carry oudh, they land on amber or vanilla, and they were all built for evenings and occasions. The fourth is not. Adaa carries no oudh anywhere in its pyramid, does not name sandalwood, and closes on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood with nothing sweet underneath. So the daytime half of any two-bottle answer is settled by the structure of the range, and only the evening half is genuinely a choice.

Which leaves the evening half, and there the three warm bottles are three real destinations rather than three versions of one. Nawaab is oud, tobacco and leather - the deepest and the only non-floral one. Ameeri is saffron and Taif rose over Indian sandalwood, warm without sugar. Mastani is night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka - the sweet one. Pick the evening on direction, not on volume, because volume is what the dial is for.

All six pairs, with the day-and-evening pair at the top

Six pairs, counted off the published pyramids
Four attars make six pairs, ordered from the widest gap to the narrowest
The pair Overlap Verdict Shared published materials What that means for you
Adaa + Nawaab 0.07 The widest contrast in the range white musk only This family's canonical pair. The lightest composition in the range against the deepest, with one published material between them - the cheapest route to two bottles that genuinely differ.
Adaa + Mastani 0.12 Genuine contrast bergamot and jasmine The sweet-evening version of the split, with one honest caveat: both carry jasmine, green sambac in the day bottle and night-blooming in the evening one.
Adaa + Ameeri 0.13 Genuine contrast bergamot and white musk The dinner version. Bergamot and white musk in common and nothing else, which is a clean division of a day with a slightly smaller step.
Mastani + Nawaab 0.14 Genuine contrast oudh and sandalwood Two evening bottles rather than a day and an evening. Genuine contrast in direction - sweet and floral against dry and leathery - with oudh and sandalwood in common.
Ameeri + Mastani 0.42 Heavy overlap bergamot, pink pepper, rose, sandalwood and oudh Both rose and oudh over sandalwood, with bergamot and pink pepper in both tops. Mastani is the sweeter, and that single axis is the whole of what separates them.
Ameeri + Nawaab 0.50 Heavy overlap saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber and white musk The pair I would actively talk you out of. Both warm, both saffron-opening, both landing on amber and musk, and the heaviest overlap in the range.
The figures count shared published materials against the total across both pyramids, grouping them the way a nose does: Indian and Mysore sandalwood are both sandalwood, Taif and Damask rose are both rose, Persian and Kashmir saffron are both saffron. They measure shared ingredients rather than how similar two finished compositions smell on a wrist - but a high number is a warning no amount of proportioning undoes.

The top three rows all contain Adaa, which is the whole structure of this family in one observation. If you want two bottles that separate a day, one of them is almost certainly Adaa and the interesting decision is the other one. The bottom three rows are the warm attars talking among themselves: all good bottles, all variations on an evening, and a pair of them is a perfectly reasonable purchase made on purpose and a disappointing one made by accident.

The dose dial, which is the alternative to a second bottle

The order to spend in
Six steps, and the first two of them cost nothing
  1. First, count the evenings. Not the coming year - the last twelve months, and only the ones you changed clothes for. Two or three means one bottle. Eight or ten means two. Four or five means buy the second in the smallest size and let next year decide.
  2. Second, calibrate your own hand. One dab inside one wrist for a week. Then two dabs, wrists and the base of the throat, applied twenty minutes before leaving rather than at the door. Those are the two settings you already own, and most readers have never used the smaller one on purpose.
  3. Third, buy the daytime bottle, and wear it alone for a fortnight. Adaa at 3ml ₹379. A fortnight on its own tells you whether a dry green composition suits your working day, which is a real taste rather than a universal one, and it is the half of the purchase most likely to be wrong for you.
  4. Fourth, buy the evening bottle, chosen on direction. Nawaab at ₹399 for oud, tobacco and leather. Ameeri at ₹385 for saffron and rose. Mastani at ₹389 for sweetness. One of them, not two, and never Ameeri beside Nawaab.
  5. Fifth, size the reorder by what empties. Whichever bottle runs out first becomes the 6ml - ₹669 for Adaa, ₹699 for Nawaab, ₹679 for Ameeri, ₹685 for Mastani - and the other stays at 3ml. It is almost never the bottle you would have predicted.
  6. Sixth, stop at two. A third bottle bought in the same order as the first two is bought on copy rather than on experience, and it is how a shelf ends up with two things that converge. Buy a third only to close a gap you have actually noticed.
Steps one and two are free and they are the two that readers skip. If you do nothing else from this page, do the second one for a week - a smaller application of a composition you already own is the closest thing to a free second bottle that exists.

The reason the dial deserves this much space on a hub page is that it is the single most common fix for a problem readers diagnose as a missing bottle. A fragrance that seems too much for a desk and not enough for a wedding is usually one application away from being right for both, and nobody has an incentive to tell you so. There is no margin in teaching a customer to use less of what they already bought.

Its limit is worth repeating because it is the honest boundary of this whole family. Dose changes how much of a composition is present; it does not change what the composition is made of. A dry base recedes across a long wearing however much of it you apply, and a heavy one builds. So if the gap you feel is about weight rather than volume - a six-hour evening in a warm room where the bottle you own quietly disappears - that is a real gap and a second bottle is the right answer to it. The published wear is 6-8 hours on skin for all four, so what changes between them is the shape of those hours rather than their number.

Nine versions of this question, and the page that answers each

The family, routed
Nine pages under this one. Find the row that describes you
If this is you The lever to move first Where to go next
You want one quiet bottle for a desk and one richer one for dinners, and you own nothing yet The pair, chosen on the count rather than on occasion labels The two-bottle answer in full - Adaa 3ml and Nawaab 3ml, with the office half handed over to the guide that owns it
You are weighing clean musk by day and saffron amber by evening against sandalwood and rose Resolve both pairs into actual bottles before judging either The two-pair page - the first pair works, the second collapses onto a rose-and-oudh structure, and white musk is a base note rather than a bottle
Your worry is that two bottles will share the same dominant wood Read the two base lines, not the two descriptions The woody-base page - three of four name sandalwood, three name oudh, and only pairs containing Adaa keep them apart
You already wear a fresh vetiver through the workday Your daytime half is filled, by somebody else’s bottle The vetiver page - the one page in this family that tells you not to buy Adaa, because vetiver sits in its base and nowhere else here
You want to know which characteristics make a composition a daytime one Decline the premise: dose and base weight, and nothing else on the usual list The page that refuses the characteristics list - recommendation ₹0, and the only honest compositional fact is the weight of the base
Your daytime bottle is sandalwood-based and you are choosing between a floral and a woody amber for the evening Sweetness tolerance, which is the real axis between those two The floral-against-woody page - Mastani or Ameeri, one of them and not both, because that pair carries five materials in common
You are buying for a corporate week and dressed-up weekends Size follows frequency: the larger bottle goes to the weekday half The two-bottle test - five steps, two of them free, and the employer’s own fragrance policy decides the weekday bottle
You own a jasmine and want the next bottle to be less floral One of the four has no flower in it at all The jasmine page - Nawaab, with Adaa and Mastani ruled out because both carry the flower in different renderings
You prefer subtle fragrances and rarely attend formal events Count the dressed evenings before buying anything The quiet-wearer page - recommendation ₹0 for the second bottle, and one bottle in the 6ml if you are starting from nothing
Two of those nine pages end in a recommendation of ₹0, which is roughly the right proportion for a family about buying a second bottle. If none of the rows fits, the last route on this page is free and it is the one I would use.

What I would buy, in what order, and when I would sell you one bottle

Sonal’s recommendation
Adaa 3ml at ₹379, then Nawaab 3ml at ₹399 a fortnight later
The widest contrast in my range is also the cheapest pair in it. That is not a strategy; it is what happened when I counted.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
The daytime bottle, first The Adaa 3ml at ₹379 at one dab - the only attar here with no oudh, and the only one that closes dry
The evening bottle, a fortnight later The Nawaab 3ml at ₹399 at two dabs - oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf over amber and leather
Why those two One shared published material, white musk. No other pair of SOSA attars is that far apart
The two evening substitutions The Ameeri at ₹385 for a dinner rather than a reception, or the Mastani at ₹389 if the evening should be sweet
What I would refuse to sell you Ameeri and Nawaab as a two-bottle set - five materials in common, two saffron openings, and no daytime bottle anywhere in the purchase
When I would sell you one bottle At two or three dressed evenings a year. Buy Adaa in the 6ml at ₹669, learn it at one dab and at two, and leave the second bottle for a busier year
The order is more of the recommendation than the list is. Buy the daytime bottle alone and wear it for a fortnight before the evening one arrives, for two reasons that have nothing to do with money. The first is that you will discover within a week whether your working day wants a fragrance at all, which a surprising number of readers find it does not. The second is that wearing the lightest thing in my range on its own gives you a reference point, so that when the evening bottle arrives you hear the distance between them rather than guessing at it. Then size the reorder by what empties, which is almost never the bottle you expected, and stop at two until you can name a gap you have actually felt.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If every occasion in your life is a festive one - a year of weddings, receptions and celebrations with very few ordinary Tuesdays in it - then this page's structure is wrong for you: the daytime half has no job, and the honest purchase is one or two of the warm attars chosen on direction, or the three-attar pack at ₹1,055 which SOSA's own page calls the evening attar trio.
— the condition that changes this answer
You wanted a working-hours bottle and an evening bottle. Two routes out of this hub.
One is the daytime half. One is free, and it decides whether you need the evening half at all.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
The daytime half of this family's answer, whichever evening bottle you choose. One dab for a desk, two for a Saturday, and the only dry, unsweetened close in the four-attar range.
Send Sonal your week
Tell me how many office days and how many genuinely dressed evenings the last twelve months held, and what is already in the drawer. I will tell you which of the nine pages under this one is yours, including the two that recommend buying nothing.
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A note from Sonal

The first time I answered this question I gave three bottles: one for the office, one for casual wear, one for occasions. That is how the question is asked, so that is how I answered it, and it took me far too long to notice that the office bottle and the casual bottle were the same bottle at two doses. I had been selling a third purchase to solve a problem that a smaller dab solved for nothing.

So this family is built on two halves of a day instead, and the pair that fills them is the pair my own arithmetic puts furthest apart - Adaa and Nawaab, one shared material. It is also the cheapest pair I sell, which is the kind of answer you only publish if you did the counting before you decided what you wanted the answer to be.

Two of the nine pages under this one tell a reader to buy nothing. That proportion is deliberate. A family of pages about buying a second bottle, where every page ends in a purchase, is not advice - it is a catalogue with paragraphs. I would rather lose two sales in ten and keep the reader, because the reader who was talked out of the wrong bottle is the one who comes back for the right one.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best two-attar combination for day and night from SOSA?
Adaa for the day and Nawaab for the night. On their published pyramids those two share one material, white musk. Adaa is Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, closing on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood with no oudh anywhere in it. Nawaab is white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf over amber, leather and white musk. At 3ml that is 379 rupees and 399 rupees.
Do I actually need two bottles to cover a day and an evening?
Not if the dressed evenings are rare. One dab inside one wrist is a working day and two dabs across both wrists and the base of the throat is an evening, out of the same bottle, and that is a genuine difference in how a composition behaves. Count the last twelve months: two or three dressed evenings means one bottle in the larger size, and eight or ten means two bottles in the smaller.
Which SOSA attar is the daytime one?
Adaa, on structure rather than on convention. It is the only one of the four with no oudh anywhere in its pyramid, the only one that does not name sandalwood, and the only one whose close has nothing sweet in it - white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. That is what allows one small dab of it to carry a working day. The other three were all built with evenings in mind.
Which two attars should never be bought as a day-and-evening pair?
Ameeri and Nawaab. They carry saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber and white musk in common, both open on saffron, and both land on amber and musk - the heaviest overlap of any pair in the range. Beyond that, any pair drawn from the three warm attars gives you two evenings and no daytime bottle, whatever dose you apply.
Which bottle should I buy in the bigger size?
The one you wear most, which is almost always the daytime bottle - roughly twenty wearings a month against four or five for an evening one. Buy both as 3mls first, see which empties, and make that one the 6ml: 669 rupees for Adaa, 699 for Nawaab, 679 for Ameeri, 685 for Mastani. Matching sizes feel tidy and produce a half-used evening bottle a year later.
Does a larger application make an attar last longer?
Not meaningfully. The published figure is 6-8 hours on skin and it is the only performance number SOSA has for any attar; a larger dab mostly changes how much of the composition is present rather than how long the trace holds. The useful thing dose does is let one bottle serve two settings - a small application for a working day and a larger one for an evening.
The family's answer, in one line
Adaa 3ml for the working hours and Nawaab 3ml for the evenings - one shared material between them, and the cheapest route to two bottles that genuinely differ.
See SOSA Nawaab · 3ml ₹399 Describe a feeling to SOSA
Not sure which of the nine pages under this one is yours?
SOSA — Send me your week, and whatever is already in the drawer. How many office days, how many genuinely dressed evenings, and the base line off any bottle you already own. I will route you - including to the two pages that recommend buying nothing.
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About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. It is written for a reader who already owns a fragrance and wants the next one to be genuinely different, and the method - read the published base lines, count the shared materials, then decide - applies to any brand. The product recommendations reflect the SOSA attar and perfume oil range only.

On the overlap figures in this guide. Where this guide says two SOSA attars overlap, the figure is derived from their own published note pyramids by counting shared materials against total materials, grouping them the way a nose groups them: Taif rose and Damask rose are both rose, Persian and Kashmir saffron are both saffron, jasmine sambac and night-blooming jasmine are both jasmine though they read differently. It is a measure of shared ingredients, not a measure of how similar two finished compositions smell to you - two scents can share five materials and still be told apart on a wrist. The figures are here because they are checkable against the product pages, and because the alternative is a seller's opinion about its own range. Across the four attars: Ameeri and Nawaab share the most (saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber, white musk); Ameeri and Mastani are close behind (bergamot, pink pepper, rose, sandalwood, oudh); Adaa and Nawaab share the least, white musk alone.

On the Attar Trio. SOSA's three-attar pack is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, and SOSA's own product page describes it as the evening attar trio - the trio for the evenings that matter. This guide recommends it on that basis and no other. It is not described here as a balanced wardrobe, because it is drawn from the two most overlapping pairs in the range and it does not include Adaa, which is the attar that contrasts most with the others.

What this guide does and does not claim. SOSA publishes one performance figure for its attars: they wear 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. SOSA publishes no projection, sillage or scent-radius data, and none appears here. Nothing about layering is published by SOSA and no combination has been formally evaluated, so anything this guide says about wearing two scents together is Sonal's own craft assessment, marked as such wherever it appears, and never a promise about what a combination will smell like on you. SOSA makes no claim about compliments, attraction, confidence, mood, sleep, stress or wellbeing, no claim about what another person will notice or think, and no medical, dermatological or allergy claim; anyone with sensitive skin or a fragrance allergy should patch-test and use their own judgement or consult a doctor.

Facts verified 19 October 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: every SOSA attar is an alcohol-free, DPG-free oil perfume carried on sandalwood and jojoba oil with a built-in dab applicator, hand-blended in Pune, sold in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. SOSA Adaa (3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149): Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - the only one of the four with no oudh. SOSA Ameeri (₹385 · ₹679 · ₹1,165): Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk. SOSA Mastani (₹389 · ₹685 · ₹1,179): litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. SOSA Nawaab (₹399 · ₹699 · ₹1,199): white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - oud-led, and the deepest in the range. The three evening attars come together as the SOSA Attar Trio (₹1,055 · ₹1,859 · ₹3,189). Separately, SOSA makes six perfume oils in 10ml, 50ml and 100ml - Zaffran, Tabac Noir and Samundar at ₹599, ₹1,799 and ₹3,499, and Khayaal, Chashni and Bahaar at ₹599, ₹1,899 and ₹3,599 - each an independent SOSA composition inspired by a widely known fragrance and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the house named. SOSA does not run a sampler or tester programme; the 3ml attar is the trial size. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
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